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Title:

Understanding victory and defeat in contemporary war / edited by Jan Angstrom and Isabelle Duyvesteyn.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xviii, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

War.
Military art and science--History--21st century.

Other Authors:

Angstrom, Jan.
Duyvesteyn, Isabelle, 1972-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the problem of victory and defeat in modern war / Jan Angstrom -- Defining postwar victory / Robert Mandel -- In the eye of the beholder : victory and defeat in US military operations / Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney -- Victory, counter-insurgency and Iraq -- Ian F.W. Beckett -- The United States perspective on victory in the war on terrorism / Jan Angstrom -- Paradoxes of the strategy of terrorism / Isabelle Duyvesteyn -- How to lose a war on terror : a comparative analysis of a counterinsurgency success and failure / Ivan Arreguin-Toft -- The origins and implications of Western counterinsurgency failures / Gil Merom -- Toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan / Stephen Biddle -- Culture and the outcome of military intervention : developing some hypotheses / Kersti Larsdotter -- Understanding victory and defeat : some conclusions / Isabelle Duyvesteyn.

Series:

Contemporary security studies.

ISBN:

9780203967683 (ebk)
0203967682 (ebk)
9780415404570 (hbk)
0415404576 (hbk)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)69992448

LCCN:

2006018382

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)